RE: Stupid question about winmodems

["Peter Massey" <peter rcc com au>]

>On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Stephen King wrote:
>> Could someone define for me the difference between a winmodem and a
regular
>> modem?
>>
>WinModem is missing most of the hardware that makes a modem. It's
>replaced by software that EMULATES the missing hardware, thus making
>the processor do all the work that used to be done by the missing
>hardware.
> 	John
>

I was under the impression that a Software modem, like said, is missing the
hardware that makes it a traditional modem and utilises a combination of the
MMX part of the Intel Processors and the ermm AMD equivilant of MMX and
software written for WinDoze. I could be wrong of course :)

Peter M.